The Long Road To Heaven

This second Lent resource from the author of The Naturalist and the Christ explores Christian understandings of “salvation” in a five-part study course based on the film The Way. Starring Martin Sheen as a bereaved father, this soulful and uplifting film observes a group of pilgrims walking the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. As it follows their journey of inner transformation, the course examines biblical accounts and images of salvation – past, present and future – and addresses the questions: What are we saved from? What are we saved for? Who can be saved? What do we have to do to be saved? How are we saved?

Happiness is Brayton, Nebraska, in your rearview mirror.That's the adage Heather Montgomery has lived by since leaving home on thatcold April night in 1975. She never told anyone what her father did to drive her away. She couldn't tell her high school sweetheart about their baby. She just needed to get the hell out.But keeping the past where it belongs is growing increasingly difficult. In the five years since her departure, she's found unrivaled success inthe music business, and a high-profile marriage to her band's drummerhas made Heather the apple of the paparazzi's eye.When shestumbles in her father's footsteps and forsakes the love of her familyand friends for the comfort in a bottle of whiskey Heather faces thepossibility of losing her child for good.The choice is up to her -- the booze or her baby, which is more important?The answer seems obvious.But will confronting the demons that drive her to drink force her to return to the one place she swore she'd never see again?

A lonely junkmailer, his bag full of real estate leaflets, wanders the streets of a sleeping, subtropical city. Accompanied by a host of bizarre companions he is led on a quixote journey through the night time streets.

This moment has been calling you since you've been born. You are holding in your hands keys to unlocking your destiny and position in the kingdom work of GOD. These words have never before been written, and until now, have been locked inside the heart and spirit of the author. The battle between GOD's children and the forces of evil are heightening this very moment, and there remains only one question. Are you really ready for the return of the Lord? The Truth: He Still Lives & Breathes, is that piece of the puzzle that will help prepare you to walk in the full authority of the heaven within you. This is your life and the choice that you have made today to embrace "The Truth" will prove to change you in ways that you could not have ever imagined. These next 40 days of revelation could be the most important days of your life. Robert "Pip" Montgomery has pinpointed in a most sincere and creative way what it means to be totally free. The Truth: He Still Lives & Breathes reveals this freedom with unparalleled clarity. Get prepared to experience GOD outside the four walls of a building. GOD's trumpet for all people is now sounding; this is your time for true spiritual freedom! _________________________________ (QUOTE) "Pip, God is doing something bigger here that involves all of us. I'm looking forward to the way God will use this. I appreciate your heart and yearning to be used by God." Rick Warren, Author of the NY Times Best-Seller, The Purpose Driven Life. Over 25,000,000 sold worldwide.

One day while sitting on a park bench, Mark was asked by an old man, "Why do you do what you do? Why do you work where you work or live where you live?" Whether we agree or not, life really is about a series of paths and decisions whereby even one small change can alter our lives forever. We usually want to blame others, including God, for our decisions. Only by examining the paths we have taken can we really see where we're at! It is only when we look deep within ourselves we discover that as writers, singers, musicians, interior decorators, or even truck drivers, we all have gifts! Having them is not to question; rather, it is WHAT WE DO WITH THEM that really matters! Wherever your passions lie, you can erase your doubts and restore your joy. Just imagine yourself on a park bench...

One fateful morning in August 1846, Patrick Feeney surveyed his ruined potato crop - and for the first time knew despair. With a delicate wife and their unborn child, he had no choice but to leave that wild and beautiful corner of Ireland and set out for England in search of work. But from the moment Patrick and Mary set foot in Liverpool, they are beset by new trials. After tramping the long, weary miles to York, they are forced to settle in the nightmarish slums of Walmgate, where disease and death are rife. Yet the very poverty and hopelessness of their surroundings bind the small community together in a stubborn determination to survive through tragedy and win for themselves a better life.

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbours. This first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich', which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception. With a second volume that takes the story up to reunification in 1990, Germany: The Long Road West will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries.